SD1 lists cuts due to rate increase failure

6:29 PM,
Jul. 11, 2013

Written by

Dave Malaska
| Enquirer contributor

A memo sent to city and county leaders on Wednesday by Sanitation District No. 1 Executive Director David Rager spelled out necessary spending and service cuts after county leaders denied a rate increase in June.

According to Rager, system and equipment failures will increase across SD1's service area because of the cuts.

"It was tough to write," Rager said Thursday. "Most of our day-to-day field service and customer services are going to be reactive instead of proactive. We will be in violation of the 2007 consent decree." ...